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GE opens passenger, baggage security lab at San Francisco airport
GE uses San Francisco airport location for passenger and cargo security measures development and testing
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City in the bay employs WhisprWave port security barrier
Alameda, California to protect itself with an innovative floating defensive barrier
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Los Angeles Port installs comprehensive radiation detection system
Los Angeles port, among largest in nation, to be equipped with comprehensive radiation detection system
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House passes tough immigration bill, calling for a fence on U.S.-Mexican border
House passes tough immigration bill with a series of unprecedented measures to curb illegal immigration
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TSA posts RFI for Registered Traveler, TWIC
Transportation agency posts RFPs for two major transportation security projects
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DHS IG finds confusing supervision of ISIS program
DHS IG says that more than $400 million has been invested in Integrated Surveillance Intelligence System to date, without much to show for it
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TSA considers barring veterans with mental health issues from commercial flights
TSA is looking for a company to create a database which would monitor veterans with mental health problems for possible inclusion in flight Watch List
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Retailers urge DHS to follow C-TPAT
Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) is a good model of government-private industry cooperation, and the nation’s retailers call on the government to apply it more broadly
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U.K. secretly buys shoulder-mounted missiles to develop defenses against them
U.K. buys Russian-made shoulder-mounted missiles to use them in practicing anti-missile defenses for civilian aircraft
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Undercover air marshals to be placed on trains, busses, and ferries
TSA had an idea: Why not place undercover marshals on ground transportation? A pilot program was launched quietly this week, but complaints from local authorities caused TSA to scale it back
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Canada installs first port radiation detection devices
Canada begins to beef up radiation detection in the country’s seaports, but the U.S.— and Canadian security experts argue that these are only first steps
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Universal Holdings deploys new command and control solution
Protecting ship-borne cargo containers is a massive and important security endeavor, and a new solution which collects information from container-attached RFID tags will help
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Court orders OTI to be reinstated to U.S. ePassport evaluation process
GPO excludes Israeli company OTI from ePassport evaluation program, but OTI wins legal challenge and is reinstated
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The long view
Prototype Self-Service Screening System Unveiled
TSA and DHS S&T unveiled a prototype checkpoint technology, the self-service screening system, at Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas, NV. The aim is to provide a near self-sufficient passenger screening process while enabling passengers to directly receive on-person alarm information and allow for the passenger self-resolution of those alarms.